Dean Sluyter

The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Finding Nirvana in the Classics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

HOW THE LITERATURE WE LOVE CONVEYS THE AWAKENING WE SEEK

Suppose we could read Hemingway as haiku . . . learn mindfulness from Virginia Woolf and liberation from Frederick Douglass . . . see Dickinson and Whitman as buddhas of poetry, and Huck Finn and Gatsby as seekers of the infinite . . . discover enlightenment teachings in Macbeth, The Catcher in the Rye, Moby-Dick, and The Bluest Eye.

Some of us were lucky enough to have one passionate, funny, inspiring English teacher who helped us fall in love with books. Add a lifetime of teaching Dharma authentic, traditional approaches to meditation and awakening and you get award-winning author Dean Sluyter. With droll humor and irreverent wisdom, he unpacks the Dharma of more than twenty major writers, from William Blake to Dr. Seuss, inspiring readers to deepen their own spiritual life and see literature in a fresh, new way: as a path of awakening.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New World Library
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608687701
• Artikelnr.: 63493276

Autorenporträt

Dean Sluyter (pronounced slighter) has led meditation workshops and retreats throughout the US since 1970, at venues ranging from Ivy League colleges to maximum-security prisons. For thirty-three years he taught English and Literature of Enlightenment at the Pingry School. He lives in Santa Monica, California, where he sings with the Threshold Choir, plays old songs on the ukulele, and happily zips about on his Vespa.

DeanSluyter.com

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Let’s Take Our Shoes Off
1. William Blake
Eternity’s Sunrise
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Unutterable Visions
3. Frederick Douglass The Slave Narrative
Tribulation
4. Thoreau, Emerson & Friends
Future Buddhas of America
5. Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat
Have No Fear
6. Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
Plenty for Everybody
7. Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
Pebbles and Boulders
8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
The Milk of Paradise
9. John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Let Us Melt
10. Mark Twain Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Betwixt Two Things
11. John Keats
Still
12. Edwin Abbott Abbott Flatland
Upward, Not Northward
13. William Shakespeare Macbeth
What’s Your Hurry?
14. Samuel Beckett Waiting For Godot
Thanks For Nothing
15. Rodgers & Hammerstein Oklahoma!
OK
16. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Flame Out
17. Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye
Love Nonetheless
18. Herman Melville Moby-Dick
Whiteness
19. Emily Dickinson
I’m Nobody
20. Walt Whitman
I Am Large
21. J. D. Salinger
Ah, Buddy
22. Key, Rogers & Franklin Three Anthems
Look Again
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography